ChatGPT, a boon or a bane?
By Yasharth Rai
“I fear the day that technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots”,Albert Einstein famously said. Decades later, the world was introduced to another genius, ChatGPT .
Launched in November 2022, in two months of its launch it amassed one hundred million users, becoming the fastest growing user-base. ChatGPT has a wide range of potential applications like chatbots, language translations, automated customer service and much more.
It can even write poems and essays in a matter of seconds. This makes the versatile application timesaving and labour-saving. It’s list of accomplishments is never-ending.
However, there are two sides of the coin. Apart from increasing chances of cyber-crimes, it also allows humans to not put labour and their minds into the work that they are doing. While this might seem tempting and an easy way out, it has far-reaching repercussions.
Take for example, a student been asked to write a paper on cryptocurrencies. He in a world without AI would study and research about the topic, learn a lot in the process while putting his understanding on paper.
But with tools like ChatGPT in play, there is no need for research. AI will do it all for you, in the process defeating the entire purpose of giving homework or assignment to students.
This gives us a generation of youngsters all relying on technology. To use Einstein’s terminology, a generation of ‘idiots’.
The moral and ethical use of ChatGPT remains contested. It is even banned by several universities and colleges for this purpose. We need to remember that the best works are ones which have had humans putting their hard work and intelligence in it.
‘TheStarry Night ’ wasn’t made by AI. Neither was Macbeth or the Pythagoras Theorem or The Road Not Taken. All these masterpieces and discoveries can only be attributed to the ingenious human brain.
“I fear the day that technology will surpass human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots”,
Launched in November 2022, in two months of its launch it amassed one hundred million users, becoming the fastest growing user-base. ChatGPT has a wide range of potential applications like chatbots, language translations, automated customer service and much more.
It can even write poems and essays in a matter of seconds. This makes the versatile application timesaving and labour-saving. It’s list of accomplishments is never-ending.
However, there are two sides of the coin. Apart from increasing chances of cyber-crimes, it also allows humans to not put labour and their minds into the work that they are doing. While this might seem tempting and an easy way out, it has far-reaching repercussions.
Take for example, a student been asked to write a paper on cryptocurrencies. He in a world without AI would study and research about the topic, learn a lot in the process while putting his understanding on paper.
But with tools like ChatGPT in play, there is no need for research. AI will do it all for you, in the process defeating the entire purpose of giving homework or assignment to students.
This gives us a generation of youngsters all relying on technology. To use Einstein’s terminology, a generation of ‘idiots’.
The moral and ethical use of ChatGPT remains contested. It is even banned by several universities and colleges for this purpose. We need to remember that the best works are ones which have had humans putting their hard work and intelligence in it.
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